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Re: Soapbox: Why I Love A Good Map, And That Time I Mapped Yoshi's Melons For Nintendo Power

silver-crescent

I do love a good map, both for the usefulness and the way the can draw you into the world. It's not particularly useful but the Final Fantasy X map is a great example of the latter: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/a/a7/FFXMAPs.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20131227201920

It's a great feeling starting a new JRPG and seeing the map for the first time and knowing you'll get to explore all of that. On the other hand also love slowly filling the blank map in a metroidvania and the like.

Re: Feature: Nintendo Life eShop Selects & Readers' Choice (June 2024)

silver-crescent

Dicefolk is absolutely excellent, a perfect mix between Slay The Spire and Pokémon (Pokémon rotation battles more specifically) while also feeling like its own unique thing. Fantastic gameplay, really cool creatures and the difficulty is just right, not too easy or too hard. Really recommend it to anyone who enjoys either roguelike deckbuilders or monster collecting games, or both.

I also really enjoyed Moonstone Island, it kinda feels like a streamlined/fantastical version of Stardew Valley that replaces that game's heavy busy work/routine with exploring sky islands, tackling dungeons, collecting and battling with monsters and so on. It's a mix of a lot of different genres (the combat is card-based too) but it totally works.

Re: Square Enix's SaGa Emerald Beyond Receives A New Update For Switch

silver-crescent

I'd been meaning to pick up this game, but was waiting until after I'm finished with Scarlet Graces first (currently on the fourth protagonist playthrough, so nearly there), so this is great news. Based on what I've seen/read and the similarity to the excellent Scarlet Graces I'm absolutely expecting it to end up as one of my favourite games of the year.

Re: Community: 28 Switch Games We Missed, As Recommended By You Lovely People

silver-crescent

That's Skul, Here Comes Niko and Picross -LogiartGrimoire- wishlisted. I'll probably be buying Skul soon since it's actually half-off right now, I'm surprised I'd never heard of it before as it seems totally up my alley. Process of Elimination looks really cool too, I've had it on my wishlist for ages, definitely need to pick it up eventually.

Also, definitely +1 for Silent Hope, that game is a lot of fun and I'm actually surprised to see it wasn't reviewed. Nice to see it second in the poll.

These features are great, I meant to make a few recommendations myself but ended up forgetting, but I'll be sure not to miss the next one.